Often taken for granted, the brightly plumaged male summer tanager is one of the more spectacular breeding birds of North America. The uniform bloodred feathers seen against a bright green ...

Despite the bold field marks, these birds are hard to ... Four cousins of the western tanager—scarlet, summer, hepatic and flame-colored—fly to North America every summer from their tropical ...

According to Cornell University's Cornell Lab of Ornithology, male scarlet tanagers are the only birds in North America that are completely red all the way through. Another fascinating fact about ...

Bill and I have studied birds for many years (me since I was a child), so when we moved to our new house, I was curious as to what we ...

The western is the only regular North American tanager with wing bars. Note its yellow underwing linings in flight. Its bill is small for a Piranga, larger in size than the scarlet’s ...